Re: [PATCH -rt] timer: upper bound on loops of __run_timers processing

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 05:52:28PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Commit "timers: do not raise softirq unconditionally", allows for timer
> wheel processing (__run_timers) to be delayed for long periods of time.
> 
> The effect is that 
> 
> loops = jiffies - base->timer_jiffies
> 
> Can grow to very large values resulting in __run_timers taking hundreds
> of milliseconds to execute.
> 
> Fix by creating an upper bound on the number of loops to be processed.
> This allows a nohz=off kernel to achieve desired latencies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
> index f59e18c..c128416 100644
> --- a/kernel/timer.c
> +++ b/kernel/timer.c
> @@ -1488,6 +1488,12 @@ void run_local_timers(void)
>  	}
>  #endif
>  
> +	if (time_after_eq(jiffies, base->timer_jiffies)) {
> +		unsigned long jiffies_delta = jiffies - base->timer_jiffies;
> +		if (jiffies_delta > TVR_SIZE)
> +			raise_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
> +	}
> +
>  	if (!base->active_timers)
>  		goto out;
>